Rewritten and Rebuilt

May the Lamb who was slain receive the reward of His suffering!   The Moravians were a non-denominational group of people who lived around 1727, give or take a few years. They aren’t as well known as they should be and if you have time to look up information on them I highly suggest it. But to get to the barest of facts, they instituted a 24/7 prayer watch that lasted over a hundred years! If that isn’t enough, they became the first to stress the spreading of the Gospel to any and all people. During that time, missions was non-existent and even forbidden in many countries. This didn’t stop the Moravians; they sold themselves into slavery on ships headed to the Indies and condemned themselves to death in leper colonies. The mark of a Moravian traveling aboard a ship was they brought all their worldly belongings in a casket.    They never came home alive, in fact their bodies rarely came home. Why would they do this; what possessed hundreds of people to willingly go wh...

So Peter stepped out onto the water and began to walk towards Jesus. But when he realized how high the waves were, he became frightened and started to sink. "Save me, Lord!" he cried out. Matthew 14:29-30 (TPT)    Ever wonder what Peter was thinking about when he asked Jesus to call him out of the boat to walk on water with Him? I mean he jumps out, walks a few steps, and then when he notices that the storm is still going on, he freaks out and starts to sink in fear. I sincerely think that Peter just assumed the storm would stop once he started walking in it. But why would it; the Messiah was walking in it and yet it raged on. It never hurt or distracted Jesus but it was very much still a storm. I think a lot of us do this also during the storms in our lives; well I can't speak for the rest of you but I know I do it.    For those that don't know the end of the story, Jesus saves Peter, stops the storm, gets into the boat and rebukes the disciples for the...